Elephantine Quotes
- The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics. — Madeleine Albright
- The male ego with few exceptions is elephantine to start with. — Bette Davis
- What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary… — Garrison Keillor
- Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. — Garrison Keillor
- Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. — George Orwell
- The Elephantine papyri - written as some of the books of the Bible are being written - is true social and legal documentation, and to… — Simon Schama